Max Frisch Quotes

You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'

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• I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • You
  • Beginnings

• Awards are for young people. They just are.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Young
  • Awards

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • People
  • America
  • Today

• My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Future
  • Place
  • Expectations

• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Funny
  • Red
  • Blue

• I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Why
  • May

• I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Think
  • You
  • Everything

• I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Military
  • Attitude

• I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Think
  • Year
  • Useful

• The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Power
  • Truth

• Were a real and effective disarmament achieved and the funds now spent in the arms race devoted to the amelioration of man's state; were we to concentrate only on the peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge, how vastly and in how short a time might we change the conditions of mankind. This should be our goal.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'

  

  Vanity

• When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Hope
  • City
  • Roads

• When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.

  

  Louis Garrel
  • Style
  • Rap

• Lincoln was able to say, you know, "It will make me very unhappy if I lose the presidency, but I'm committed to larger things." If you look at candidates and say this is someone who can be happy to go back to their family or they have larger convictions. Franklin Roosevelt jeopardized his presidency by telling Americans in 1940, "We might have to fight Hitler." He loved being president, but he loved defending freedom more.

  

  Michael Beschloss
  • Fighting
  • Unhappy
  • Committed

• May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

  

  Augustus
  • May
  • Hope
  • Future

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Wine
  • Laughter

• You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'

  

  Max Frisch